Storm Davis, O’Brien Head Free-Agent Signings

Not much changed at baseball’s winter meetings Thursday. There were no trades, only free-agent signings. And those signings made some otherwise average people rich:

--The Kansas City Royals gave former Oakland A’s pitcher Storm Davis $6 million for three years.

--The Seattle Mariners gave former Cleveland Indian first baseman Pete O’Brien $7.6 million for four years.

--Former Toronto Blue Jay outfielder Lloyd Moseby was signed by the Detroit Tigers for $3 million for two years.

--And Boston Red Sox pitcher Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd received a $600,000 contract from the Montreal Expos, with incentives that could pay him another $1 million.

“Nobody in baseball could ever have dreamed it would be like this,” said Cleveland General Manager Hank Peters, who late Wednesday signed Keith Hernandez to a two-year, $3.5-million deal mainly because “he will provide good clubhouse leadership.”

The Royals hope for more than that from Davis, although he had a 4.36 earned-run average last season. The same goes for the Blue Jays, who are paying Moseby on the basis of a .221 average in 135 games, with 11 homers and 43 runs batted in.

Perhaps O’Brien, who hit .259 with 12 homers and 55 RBIs for the Indians last season, put it best. “I accomplished what I set out to do,” he said of his signing, which will turn Mariner first baseman Alvin Davis into a designated hitter.